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Chrissie White, who were soon to become the most important members of the famous Hepworth Stock Company.
Now I want to make it quite clear that all and any of these young people were liable to be called upon, the girls specially, to take on various jobs in the process of film-making other than acting. They came gladly and worked with a will, drying, sorting, labelling or boxing, or even running errands. And never was there a sound of grumbling — never any that I heard anyway. Contrariwise, as Tweedledum would say, anybody anywhere, carpenter, electrician, dark-room hand or clerk might be roped in to act a part at any time, and all were willing and glad to obey.
But our crowd were not the only ones imbued with this spirit. Even the horses in Walton village had the same idea. There were only a few of them and normally their job was to run the small omnibus to or from the station to meet the trains. Abnormally, they had to turn out with the fire-brigade when the call came. Then the bus was hastily abandoned wherever it might be and the horses galloped off to the fire-engine house, and the passengers in the bus could jolly-well walk. This happened to us sometimes, for casual actors came down by train and if they were stranded they arrived very late for their parts in the film. Good old timers like Thurston Harris were among those who fell victims to this capricious habit. The bus drivers were great local characters named Bert and Fred Stowe.
A notable effort from the Fitzhamon basket, about 1908, was a trick and chase film in one — a combination of two very popular styles at that time. It was called The Fatal Sneeze. Gertie Potter was the mischievous 'boy' with the pepper pot who caused all the trouble. There were dozens of scenes in which the unhappy sneezer, whose every orgasm caused dreadful wreckage, was chased from one scene to another until his last effort set the whole visible world swaying from side to side and he himself exploded and disappeared in smoke. It was a crude performance, but I have kept it in my film-lecture as an example and it always provokes more laughter and mirth than many a modern comedy.
We strayed far afield at times. One of our fellows, named Scott-Brown, went to Egypt and brought back many short negatives, one of which was tremendously popular, Moonlight on the Nile. Half its effect was due to the staining and toning which we gave to the prints. This is something which is necessarily quite unfamiliar to laboratory workers of the present day. The
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